The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella

This story felt mostly like the musings of a straight, white and rich male, who falls in love with a woman who is already married with kids. A lot of it is just Werner philosophising about life and the people around him while he stand somewhere surrounded by nature, as this is written during the Romantics. 
I did not really care that much about this, up until 2/3rd of the way through. That is when he kind of starts to lose his mind, which I thought was more interesting than reading about him just sitting by a fountain thinking about the struggles of the working class. 
The book is written as if Werner is writing letters to you and it's kind of implied in the end that they're collected by a publicist who then went ahead and published it. I find that highly unlikely, because it doesn't seem like there has been any editing done and I hate it, since it takes so long before anything happens.